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Achille Mbembe vs. Michel Foucault

Theory & Philosophy

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The Illusion of Liberalism: Control and Constraints in Capitalist Society

Examining how the formation of capitalism and the emergence of institutions in the 18th and 19th centuries did not free individuals as liberalism suggests, but instead imposed new forms of control and restraint on our sense of self.

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